Both excellent ideas, Jukka. I've thought about both of these myself as well...
I think a nice way to provide #1 would be to enhance the HTML View in the Feature Info window to compute and display the area and length for each feature which is displayed. This should be an easy enhancement to make. Would this meet your need? Larry's point about the Tooltips may also meet #1 (although is the tooltip always guaranteed to provide this information? In some cases they may be customized to show something different, right? ). Anyway, doesn't hurt to have this information provided in more than one place. As for #2, I think this is also a very good idea. We could perhaps use the old MS Access UI as an inspiration. In it you could display a table in either a grid view (like JUMP does now) or in a "Sheet" view, which displayed one record at a time with the fields laid out vertically. A navigation control was provided to move between records. This seems like it would be a nifty thing to have available, in both the Attribute View window and the Feature Info window. It shouldn't be *too* hard to do - you would have to autogenerate a Swing layout for the fields, but Jon's nifty dialog generation API shows how to do that pretty easily. I think the actual geometry should probably not be displayed as part of the fields, but the usual View/Edit button can be provided on the panel. Area & Length could be shown too, as non-editable fields. Perhaps some other geometry metadata would be useful as well, such as number of vertices, number of components, number of holes, etc. (the same info as shown in the Feature Stats layer) Larry, I don't see the layout of large numbers of fields as a problem. The panel can simply be allowed to scroll. -- Martin Davis Senior Technical Architect Refractions Research, Inc. (250) 383-3022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
